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Architecture news and views from around the nation and beyond.

Paris-based architect Jug Cerovic has designed the most standardized world subway maps to date. Although the designs make use of a common toolkit of features across the maps—straight vertical, horizontal, and 45-degree-angle lines, for example, plus uniform primary colors—the characters of each subway system nevertheless shine through. Above is the clean map for New York. [The Atlantic Cities]

Troubles in the Brew?: Mary Louise Schumacher reports on the news that architect James Shields, FAIA, had a falling out with the Milwaukee Art Museum, for whom he designed a 17,000-square-foot project. Parties involved in the conflict tell Schumacher that Shields and the museum parted ways—as first reported by Urban Milwaukee—after Shields battled with MAM exhibition designer David Russick. Shields says that renderings for the museum released last week don't reflect his work: "So is that mine, not really." [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]

The D.C. Public Library released an eight minute podcast on the original selection of and design by Mies van der Rohe for the system’s central library. Read more on the history in ARCHITECT. [Soundcloud]

Some Chinese parents are buying places in college towns, years before their kids will actually live in them. [The Wall Street Journal]